barabara
English edit
Noun edit
barabara (plural barabaras)
- Alternative form of barrabora
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
barabara
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Swahili barabara.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Audio (file)
Noun edit
barabara class 9/10 (plural barabara)
References edit
- ^ “barabara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 24. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 18.
Swahili edit
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly from Arabic بَرّ (barr, “land, earth”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barabara (n class, plural barabara)
- road (strip of land made suitable for travel)
- Synonym: njia
- maisha ni barabara ndefu
- life is a long road
- 2019 July 30, “Erick Kabendera: Polisi wa Tanzania wanasema walimkamata mwandishi huyo [Erick Kabendera: Police in Tanzania say they have arrested the reporter]”, in BBC Swahili[1]:
- Baada ya siku tisa Mo kama anavyojulikana nchini humo, alitupwa nje ya uwanja wa Gymkana katika barabara ya Ocean Road eneo linalolindwa sana kwa kuwa barabara hiyo inelekea ikulu ya rais nchini Tanzania.
- After nine days Mo, as he [Mohammed Dewji] is known in the country, was thrown out of the Gymkana Stadium on the road Ocean Road in an area that is well protected, as the road leads to the presidential palace in Tanzania.
Descendants edit
- Kikuyu: barabara
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
barabara (invariable)
Adverb edit
barabara
Tagalog edit
Adjective edit
bárabára (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇᜊᜇ)
- Alternative spelling of bara-bara
Yogad edit
Noun edit
bárabára